How to get past voter apathy in Philadelphia

April 11, 2011

Donna Reed Miller has represented Philadelphia’s Eighth Council District for the last two-and-a-half decades. Is it because of voter apathy? Or is there voter apathy because the same person has been in the same district for the last 16 years?

Where was everyone else? Too downtrodden to have faith in a political forum and the inevitable election. But there are a lot of long-time council members stepping down this year, so let’s take a cue from them to do something out of character: vote.